Reading between the Currents-Water as a Recurring Motif Dr. Vrinda R. Chanth Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Government College Daman Abstract Be it the river, the rains, or the floods, water remains a constant presence in literature from Assam, a north-eastern state of India situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the river valleys of […]
Author: Drishti: the Sight
Treatment of Man-Nature Relationship in Dhruba Hazarika’s Luck
Sanjib Das Research scholar (M.Phil), Dibrugarh University(Assam) Abstract Dhruba Hazarika is an eminent writer from North-East India who writes in English language. In his writings, Hazarika has a profound impact on the reader’s mind through his depiction of the relation between human and the world of nature. His writings are ornamented by natural elements such […]
The Umbilical Connect between Nature and Narrative : Parismita Singh’s
Rita Sarkar Abhedananda Mahavidyalaya (West Bengal) Abstract Definitions have underpinnings of the normative and totalitarian; they exclude much in the process of securing a structure (representations of things, ideas, concepts, experiences). They are not without the risk of being exploited at the behest of powerful grand narratives whose intentions in defining the world is fraught […]
Ecology, Culture and Postcolonialism: An Eco-critical Reading of Indira Goswami’s “The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker”
Risha Baruah Research Scholar, Cotton University Abstract In this paper, an eco-critical analysis shall be attempted of the novel: The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker (2004) by Indira Goswami . The novel has as its thematic framework the ever-growing tension between humans and the ecological world.The novel is like a primary handbook to understand the […]